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Having a hard time pulling just one quote from this whole thing, so if you didn’t hear it live you definitely have to go read it. Patriots fans felt abandoned by Mr. Kraft when he accepted the team punishment, but personally I understood why he did it. Unfortunately I think he realized too late what we all knew, that this was never solely about deflated footballs, this was about a chance to pin something on the Patriots.

I’ve seen plenty of tweets out there from national pundits not understanding how it’s good for the NFL to take down one of their biggest players. But there are plenty of people inside the NFL office, Mike Kensil being a prime example, who would love nothing more than to see the Patriots knocked down a peg.

The false leaks that Mr. Kraft brought up today are another example that there are forces driving this story with an anti-Patriots agenda.

The media landscape, filled with former playes and executives who were handed defeat at the hands of Brady and Belichick are only too happy to cast a critical eye solely on the Patriots. They take the bait at every turn and yesterday’s “destroyed his phone” is a prime example.

How many phones have you “destroyed” in your life? Words are powerful and “destroyed” is a loaded word and it framed the final piece of circumstantial evidence meant to bury the Pats.

So now it’s on. Kraft is back in our corner and that’s a powerful force to have because he carries weight where it counts most – with the other owners. I don’t know how it will play out, but it would appear this might be a defining moment for the National Football League. And all over some footballs that may or may not have been deflated.